Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our friends, even when they are practically picking our nose! We are truly thankful for all the people who make it possible for us to teach others about bats and white nose syndrome, for the volunteers who help take care of the bats, for the vets who help fix the broken ones, for the people who care enough to bring in lost bats or find ways to live in peace with the wild ones, and for the bats, long may they fly!
Wildlife rescue, Inc has graciously agreed to co-host a one-day bat rehabilitation workshop at Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton, VA. The date is Saturday, Dec 1, and the workshop meets from 9am–3pm. You can register by jumping to the Education Program tab at left. Open the flyer below for more details.
Thanks to our wonderful and talented volunteer and veterinary care coordinator, Super Kim, we now have T-shirts for sale. Proceeds go to feed the bats, support our education programs, and pay the vet bills. Thanks for shopping! PLEASE NOTE: Because of extremely limited quantities and colors, contact us directly with your request. Shirts are $15.00 each + $5 S&H per order. ADULT SHIRTS LADIES SHIRTS YOUTH SHIRTS
Please come see Save Lucy President, Leslie Sturges, at the kickoff presentation for the GMU Sustainability Institute and ReBuild’s partnership workshop series. Register here.
On Tuesday, the US Fish & Wildlife Service announced that 5.7 to 6.7 MILLION bats have died in northeastern North America since 2006. We are very sad to hear this news, but we believe that people who are willing to stand up for bats can help safeguard the remaining bat populations. Please do your part to let people know that bats are important and that they aren’t creepy, scary or dangerous. Thanks for helping! For more information see the USFWS press release here or these articles from the Washington Post NY Times Green Blog Los Angeles Times
President Leslie Sturges and Board Member Vicki Windham are at the annual NEBWG meeting in Carlisle PA. There are over 100 biologists, state agency representatives, educators, researchers, and students here. Our friends from Speleobooks, Emily & Mike are here too. Please check out their store for lots of batty goodies and support a business that supports the bat community.
We were honored when Penn State Dickinson School of Law’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund included Save Lucy in their Year of the Bat fundraiser. They raised enough money to help subsidize adult education programs, purchase Lucy’s Club incentives, or provide 4 months of mealworms for the education bats. However in our initial annoucement of their incredible generosity, we inadvertently left out the members of the ALDF’s University Park Branch. They are: Holly Moncavage, Jessica Brown, John Novak, and Jesse Baez to whom we extend a belated but heartfelt Thank You. Because we don’t yet have a picture of these fine young people to post, we thought we’d share a picture of a happy bat instead to show how the SALDF is helping bats!
Please join us for Bats: The Only Flying Mammals December 14, 2001, 6:30pm-8:30pm Meadowside Nature Center, 5100 Meadowside Lane (located in Rock Creek Regional Park), Rockville, Maryland 20855 301-258-4030 Join Park Naturalist and bat
We are happy to present ‘the year’s almost over’ report for our first year of operations. SL year end 2011B We are very, very happy with our first year. We just wish the fight against WNS was going so well. Please don’t forget, WNS is still here and it’s still moving. We need to keep letting our friends and legislators know that bats are important, not just for agricultural and forest pest control, but as representatives of the diversity and beauty of North America’s native wildlife. Didn’t see the link above? Click here to read the report: SL year end 2011B
